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> ネビルはずっとメソメソしていた。罰っていったい何だろう、とハリーは **思い巡らせた** 。
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> Neville kept sniffing. Harry wondered what their punishment was going to be.

Please help me understand 思い巡らせた in the sentence above, especially its
conjugation.


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Please help me understand 思い巡らせた


[巡る](http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/jn/217262/meaning/m0u/) means to "come back
to" or "bring back to" so adding it to 思い could mean something like, "think
again" or "rethink something".

思い巡る (dictionary form) ---> 思い巡らせる
([causative](http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar/causepass)) --->
思い巡らせた (causative, past, casual)

So Neville's actions _made_ Harry think again about what the punishment was
going to be.


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巡る kind of means to go around from place to place.

The 巡 kanji is used for 巡回 and 巡礼 where it means the same.

It is also possible to write 巡る as 回る, so you can see that it has the idea of
going around and around from here to there.

The base is just a combination of 思い (meaning one's "mind") and 巡る.

巡 **らせる** is a **使役-form** of 巡る, so it means to **make or cause** something
to go around from place to place.

So, 思い巡らせる or 思いを巡らせる means to make or cause _your_ mind and thoughts to go
around from place to place. Or as you can see in the definition in the link
below 「あれこれと考える」

In the context of the quote in the OP, since Harry doesn't know what the
punishment will be, it's natural to translate 思い巡らせた as "[he] wondered", which
I think implies he was thinking about many different possible outcomes and
trying to decide which one he felt it would be.

<http://www.weblio.jp/content/%E6%80%9D%E3%81%84%E5%B7%A1%E3%82%89%E3%81%99>


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